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----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Slagle" <james.slagle at gmail.com>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 3:01:07 PM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [TripleO] Installing from packages in	tripleo-image-elements
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to discuss some possible ways we could install the OpenStack
> components from packages in tripleo-image-elements.  As most folks are
> probably aware, there is a "fork" of tripleo-image-elements called
> tripleo-puppet-elements which does install using packages, but it does
> so using Puppet to do the installation and for managing the
> configuration of the installed components.  I'd like to kind of set
> that aside for a moment and just discuss how we might support
> installing from packages using tripleo-image-elements directly and not
> using Puppet.

I very much support having the option to use real packages within the tripleo-image-elements. Given we already use packages for some elements like Rabbit/MySQL/etc... supporting the option to use standard distribution packages for the OpenStack elements makes a lot of sense to me. 

> 
> One idea would be to add support for a new type (or likely 2 new
> types: rpm and dpkg) to the source-repositories element.
> source-repositories already knows about the git, tar, and file types,
> so it seems somewhat natural to have additional types for rpm and
> dpkg.
> 
> A complication with that approach is that the existing elements assume
> they're setting up everything from source.  So, if we take a look at
> the nova element, and specifically install.d/74-nova, that script does
> stuff like install a nova service, adds a nova user, creates needed
> directories, etc.  All of that wouldn't need to be done if we were
> installing from rpm or dpkg, b/c presumably the package would take
> care of all that.
> 
> We could fix that by making the install.d scripts only run if you're
> installing a component from source.  In that sense, it might make
> sense to add a new hook, source-install.d and only run those scripts
> if the type is a source type in the source-repositories configuration.
>  We could then have a package-install.d to handle the installation
> from the packages type.   The install.d hook could still exist to do
> things that might be common to the 2 methods.
> 
> Thoughts on that approach or other ideas?
> 
> I'm currently working on a patchset I can submit to help prove it out.
>  But, I'd like to start discussion on the approach now to see if there
> are other ideas or major opposition to that approach.

This seems like a reasonable first stab at it. Can't wait to see what you come up with.


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